2011年2月28日 星期一

A Surveyor K.


Final Peice:  A Surveyor K.
The project is commited by City Yeast-Yellow Chair Plan. We decide to don't crate only a fun chair, but also hope the user who should catch some city ideas through viewfinder on the "Surveyor K". The concept comes from "The Castle" by Franz Kafka. The people reside  and have to watch any situation around here to decide what they can do for them better. 
Altogether the castle, as seen in the distance, lived up to K.'s expectations. It was neither an old knightly castle from the days of chivalry, nor a showy new structure, but an extensive complex of buildings, a few of them with two storeys, but many of them lower and crowded close together. If you hadn't known it was a castle you might have taken it for a small town. K. saw only a single tower, and could not make out whether it was a dwelling or belonged to a church. Flocks of crows were circling around it.
---extract a novel " The Castle" by Franz Kafka
Concept drawing

Project scale



Working Process: Building 1!



Working Process: Building 2!



The project is setting in Treasure Hill Artist Village.



The City Yeast!



You should be a surveyor K in your city!

2011年2月25日 星期五

Big Rabbit Lantern sets in Treasure Hill Artist Village

    According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2011 is the Year of the Golden Rabbit, which begins on February 3, 2011 and ends on January 22, 2012.  The Rabbit is the fourth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 animals signs. The Rabbit is a lucky sign.  Rabbits are private individuals and a bit introverted.



Big Rabbit Lantern sets in Treasure Hill Artist Village. The activity begins 2011/2/10 to 2011/2/23 © Design by GR


The Sketch Drawing


2011年2月1日 星期二

Jenju village community : Rice Design



The Jenju Village Community, also known as "Jane’s Pearl," is the ancestral site of the Pingpu Kamalan Tribe. The Dongshan River runs directly through the community, making it ideal for residents to preserve its rice paddy-based industry, which accounts for up to 136 hectares of the area in and around the village. After every rice harvest, a huge amount of rice straw is left behind, and for farmers of old, this was an essential building and material supply. However with the changing times, this supply of straw is no longer needed for building, and has become mostly superfluous. For the preservation of the village’s rural culture and ideals concerning the environment, recycling and other factors, the straw received from the fields will now be used by the community to promote the material itself as a wonderful source of inspiration for use in arts and crafts. A museum, as well as a DIY shop, has been established so that visitors may also experience the art and craft of straw.
At the shop, friendly faces are usually found creating small stools, winding straw rope around and around, while chatting about the day’s events. As soon as you enter the shop, flocks of sparrows may just fly out and around the museum. It is because a kind Auntie at the shop has left rice shells and straw to attract the sparrows. The sparrows stay in groups, making homes in the rafters and sitting on the straw machines. Visitors can enjoy the songs they sing, allowing themselves to be ever more embraced by the warm nature of the environment in and around the museum.


It can be considered a little taste of childhood, like when you used to chase dogs who in turn chased chickens through the fields, or when you would tease little sparrows that lived near you. Sparrows are inherently consumers of grain, and as such, early farmers had to protect their crops; this is how the scarecrow was born. The use of scarecrows to rid fields of crop destroying sparrows is considered to be the more civil approach, as at one point in history a ‘Kill the sparrow’ campaign was launched to make sure they didn’t return. Even though this campaign was successful at saving the grain and rice fields from the sparrows, because the drop in the sparrow population was so great, and no sparrow to eat them, the locust population ballooned and swarms of the insects destroyed the fields anyway. This is what is considered to be the human factor in the manipulation of the environment, and our self-righteous consequences. Now, the sparrow is no longer considered to be the destroyer of rice fields, but is considered to be integral to ecological balance. As we learn from nature's mentors, the concept of "symbiosis" can be seen vividly.

2011年1月31日 星期一

Album Design: I ♡ Koumis!

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